From: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1011-2000May3.html Work on E-Mail Probe Could Cost $10 Million By George Lardner Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, May 4, 2000; Page A04 The White House said yesterday that it will cost $8 million to $10 million--three times more than originally estimated--to reconstruct hundreds of thousands of missing e-mails and search them for evidence demanded by subpoenas issued during past investigations of the Clinton administration. The contractor assigned to retrieve the correspondence has told congressional investigators that the work cannot be completed until late November, after Election Day, but White House spokesman Jim Kennedy said, "We hope to begin searching as early as June." By one account, backup tapes containing both incoming and outgoing messages from Vice President Gore's office may be given the most immediate attention. A spokesman for the House Government Reform Committee, Mark Corallo, said the contractor, Enterprise Computing Solutions Inc., informed it last week that the White House would produce 71 "priority tapes," 50 of them from Gore's office, to test first and try to put them in a searchable format. Kennedy, however, disputed those numbers and said no decision has been made "about what to search first." He said White House lawyers would be guided by what the investigators--from the Justice Department, congressional committees and independent counsel Robert W. Ray--most want. "If we put [Gore] at the top of the list, it could be called 'political.' If we put him at the bottom of the list, it could be called 'political,' " Kennedy said. "We are [going to be] setting priorities consistent with the needs of the investigating parties." Discussions with the various investigators will be held in the next few weeks, Kennedy said. He added that the White House still envisions not only searching tapes but turning over any relevant evidence to investigators in a "rolling production" starting in June. The White House said in March that the complicated project, starting with retrieving e-mail from thousands of voluminous, sometimes unlabeled backup tapes and then putting them into a searchable system, would cost $3 million and be completed by late September. Michael Lyle, director of the White House Office of Administration, disclosed the new estimate at a House hearing yesterday. "It's going to cost a lot of money. It's taking a lot of time," Lyle volunteered near the end of his testimony. "We are working as quickly as we can." House committee staff members said ECS President Eric Tung Q. Duong told them last week that there were 4,925 backup tapes with electronic messages and other material that had not been recorded in the permanent, archival system the White House set up several years ago. White House lawyers, who will testify today, have said the computer glitches that caused the problem were first brought to their attention in June 1998 but that they did not realize the scope of it because of a test suggesting that relevant messages had been turned over to investigators in paper form. Committee Chairman Dan Burton (R-Ind.) and other GOP members complained that the test was too limited, dealing only with White House e-mail relating to former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky, and that the White House should have disclosed the problem and sought funds to retrieve the messages at congressional appropriations hearings in early 1999. Lyle said this was not done because the White House wanted to devote all available funds to resolving the Y2K crisis. 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